They spent their entire lives hating and making fun of their dad, only to have him die protecting them.

The "I was so lucky to be your dad" line broke my heart. I mean... you can see the sadness in Hugh's watered eyes.

Man, Hugh is such a great character; built up to look suspicious from the offset, but literally everything he did was to protect either his family or the Dudleys.

Hugh was only trying to protect everyone. It's just so sad that he was misunderstood :(

It's so heartbreaking how Olivia was so cool and such a good mama before she got under the influence of Hill House. Even her ghost is still under its influence.

That part where he walks through the crowd of ghosts. He is now their keeper. He is the promise and he is what keeps their presence alive. GENIUS!

For some reason I was so disturbed with Olivia when she hugged Hugh, still looking at Steve. Nell clearly accepts Hugh into her arms but Olivia looks so unsatisfied with this sacrifice because she didn’t get all her kids to stay and I’m sure it was intended in case there would be a second season (even tho the director said there wouldn’t be). Anyway it made me feel suspicious cause it’s like she’d still haunt them anyway.

The ending was FANTASTIC, no need for another season.

Hugh really chose to have his children hate him over revealing the truth about their mother as well as dying for them. This man deserved the world

Hugh was the hero of the series. He got the kids out by himself the night everything went wrong, and he carried the secrets and the weight of everything by himself for years, all to protect his children from the pain he experienced every day. Then his final act was to give his life to save his children. A truly fantastic character.

I cried so fucking hard at this finale. Not just because it was sad, but because it reminded me of my dad.

Cried like a baby. Look, if you manage to terrify and pull emotion in a horror genre, you've created a masterpiece. Well done Mike Flanagan!👍🔥🎬

The ending is so beautifully bittersweet but also frustrating because Hill House still won in the end. The Crain siblings didn't win at all. They just survived. The house still managed to manipulate someone, Hugh, into giving their life to it. Olivia, even as a ghost, is still under the influence of the House. Even Mrs. Dudley willingly fed herself to the house (and likely Mr. Dudley as well). The house still remains standing and victorious in some way by the time the last episode ends. That means any wandering visitor can fall victim to it. I doubt Steve will destroy the house because his family and others remain there (either by choice or not). I just hope season 2 focuses on a new cast because the Crains really deserve a break from all the horror, trauma, and tragedy. They deserve to be happy. So, I want a season 2 but at the same time I don't because it's just so masterfully depressing.

I love how whenever the family is having an emotional/family moment, the ghosts are like "guys, let's give them some space."

I think this is the first show where the viewers are smart enough to know there doesn't need to be a second season. Not saying people aren't smart or that no show should get renewed, but every time I see a show everybody on the internet immediately goes "WE NEED SEASON 2" but I don't think this one needs a continuation and I'm glad people realize that

"I was so lucky to be your dad" kills me every time 😩😩😩

Olivia doesn't look too happy and the way she just stares is subtly terrifying

Ive seen a few comments about how thw house tricked him into staying but like, heres the thing. I think he knew exactly what he was doing. Hes still protecting his kids. I dont think he was tricked, i think he made a compromise.

"I can fix this" He really did.

That bleak feeling when you watch the door of the Red Room close...and Steve's alone in darkness.

Hugh saw his wife lose sanity, accepted her death helplessly, spent all his years in loneliness being abandoned by his children and at the end sacrificed himself to save his children. Heartbreaking!! The other characters that touched me a lot was Nellie, Abigail and Mr Dudley 💔💔

Theres something about the last scene where Steve is walking out that I cant get over... watching it the first time I was shaken. Just how perfectly its executed. It answers so much. The magnitude of the house's reach on the people that lived in it. But also Steve coming to terms with the reality of it all and accepting it all in that one shot. It's almost like everyone is looking up to him.. like hes the one that will protect them all.. while at the same time threatening him.. urging him to turn around. The people of hill house stand together... but the evil within will never cease to exist. It's my favorite scene of the entire show. While episode 6 is my favorite episode.

Omg... poppy's hands at the end... they're in the same position they were when Olivia jumped. If he looked back he wouldve been captured by the house and wouldve never got out. He left the past behind, let go. In turn he saved his life...

That Nell scene really got me at the end of two storms... "I was here, I was right here, I was screaming and shouting and you didn't even look at me". What a fucking masterpiece. Easily top 3 TV shows in the world. Can't wait to watch again.

It took me a minute to figure it out, but I finally realized the man that plays the young Hugh, is the little boy from E. T. all grown up!

Such a beautiful scene! All the dad was trying to do was to protect his children from the truth of the house and there mothers end just so he could keep them safe and also remember the Mum of who she really was... a mother who loved her children inside and out. The house corrupted her into her own fears convincing her they’d only be safe if she could keep them in the house forever. When Steven left, he didn’t look back. Just like his dad told him as a child!

If the actors who portrayed Hugh don't get nominated for an award, I would be so disappointed.

Anyone else notice how, just as Hugh hugs Olivia and Nell, that Olivia opens her eyes to stare at Steve as the door is closing? I don't think the house is done with them yet but I don't know if I want a season 2 😂

the “i was so lucky to be your dad “ line fucking broke me i’m still hyperventilating from this scene

I love hugh character. I think he might be my favorite right after nell. He's so grounded, logical,and intelligent. If possible, could you please upload the clip of him driving with steve in the car on the way to the house explainng to steve what the house is and wants with their family. Those kids dont know how lucky they were to have a father like that. I think its episode 8. Thanks

I hated how they didn't even show the kids mourning for him...

Hugh was so strong throughout it all. His burden was so heavy but he bore it without complaint. What a amazing guy.

"If nothing else, be kind." Words to live by.

I really hope there isn't a second season, the ending was too damn beautiful.

This made me cry then I managed to stop and then ending crying when the Dudley got back just in time 😭😭😭

What breaks my heart the most is the fact that Nelly (his little sister) has her parents, but will never see the love of her life Arthur again.

After this episode ended, I started... well more than crying, sobbing, I was asking myself why and maybe is because Hugh reminded at my dad so much, and how I was a bad son and didn't appreciate him in my 20s

It’s heartbreaking to see how many ghosts there are at the end of this scene. So may people have died because of Hill House and it’s so sad

when you think about it, steve never believed in any ghost sights at the beginning of the show and he was completely denying everything concerning supernatural activities during his childhood and at the end he was like the only one he got see all the ghosts that live in hill house

I think what's truly chilling about this part is at the end when all of the ghosts are watching him and he isn't making eye contact with them at all but he knows they're there watching him.

I can only imagine at 1:46 even though Nell is happy to have her dad back. The mom looks back at Steve holding Hugh and still wishes to hold to him as well her other children and thinks her heart is only half full, not fully satisfied yet. Even though the store ends on a happy note with the Crain kids being able to live their lives right now. I think they could still more with this family if they made Season 2 about them.

Something that always bothered me was how they thought Nell was the only one to not be believed by them all. When really both of the twins were neglected by their siblings. It was just that Nell was the first to die because of the neglect. Luke was so neglected, not saying that the siblings didn’t have good reason to(as adults), but it still hurt watching them not believe baby Luke and seeing him be so hurt cause of it.

Everyone hates Steve, but to me he's the sibling I understand and respect the most. As a first-born and older brother, I know what it's like to both (a) have to please your parents and (b) be a role model and protector for your younger sibling(s) - especially with the additional social pressures that come with being a guy (stay strong, show no emotion, be a provider, etc.). Steve and the rest of the family experienced extreme trauma (much of which Steve himself didn't directly see until adulthood), and he coped with it in the way he knew best: he attempted to rationalize it. In the same way we tell our younger siblings, "Don't worry, it was just a nightmare; everything is okay" Steve's authoring of books is an older version of that. Ghosts are unknown, but mental health issues aren't, and Steve's insistence that their family had psychiatric disorders (which, let's face it, they definitely did) was probably necessary. While Steve wasn't as emotionally vulnerable as some of the others, he did have his kind moments, such as giving Luke money. But in typical younger sibling fashion, everyone shat on him (but took his money anyway). And let's be frank: If you in real life knew a family that claimed to have seen ghosts, and you saw the toll it was taking on them, the *FIRST* person you'd side with would be the guy saying that these are serious mental health issues that need to be addressed ASAP (i.e., Steve).

Beautifully symbolic. He fled the mansion and left Olivia to save the children and now, to save the children, he had to stay and be with Olivia. I suspect that's what he was hoping for. It's a win-win. He would've been fine just saving his kids again, but we see for 26 years that he had deluded himself into thinking Olivia is with him in spirit despite knowing full-well her spirit is bound to Hill House. He missed and loved her so very deeply. By promising to be with her forever, he not only saves his children, he gets to be with the woman he loves. Best haunted house-based show/movie ever...

I’ve rewatched this show recently and decided that yeah, Hugh is definitely my favourite character. He chose to sacrifice *everything* for his family and the fact he not only was seldom thanked but usually hated for it didn’t stop him. He knew what he had to do. Olivia creeps me out at the end though. Maybe it’s just me but she and Poppy really did turn out to be the villains of the piece. At least in my mind. That last look at Steve really cemented it.

I loved the part where Hugh turned into his younger self. You see Steven regress back into being a child who looked up to and needed his dad

At the end of it all Hugh was truly a good man who did the best he could. This was such a powerful scene.

This is a good example of a bittersweet ending, how I want Game of Thrones to end.

I was in tears when hugh says that you your brothers and sisters have been the best part....and pauses.... he's dead but the fuckin emotions are so tearjerking...and when he says I m so proud to be your dad....as a father I can totally relate......Mike Flanagan, Henry Thomas, lovely Timothy Hutton and writers deserves applaud n best wishes for such beautiful craft.....I m absolutely not into series or long web series...but the haunting of hill house is just masterpiece...no cliche no formula..just pure craft n art. Have nice Day everyone n respect your parents before its too late....time n tide waits for fuckin none

In my opinion, he was the character I felt bad for the most out of everyone in the show. Yeah, Nell and Olivia died in the end but he was still the one I felt bad for the most.

they hated there dad, called him delusional and were mad at him for not taking care of then most of there life. now he just saves there lives, and is now living at a house he hates. honestly has me crying, I wish steven said goodbye or something, idk why its making my cry okay im done, sorry😂🙁

The ending was a definite tear jerker. Cried my eyes out. Beautifully done.

The way I was sobbing during this scene like I'd lost someone of my own. Nothing has hit my heart harder.

Nell's face is so anguished, while Olivia is... triumphant. What a nice detail.

Timothy Hutton killed this roll. I love that man. Im going to go cry.

I do not agreed with Stephen King: This is not "near to be the work of a geneous", this is, actualy, THE WORK OF A GENEOUS.

When Steven walks out with the ghosts behind him watching…..tears everytime

Idk why Ive seen a good amount of people bitch about the last episode I thought the ending was moving and tragic.

In the end when he us walking through those ghosts, he didn't let fear get him. You can see Poppy's hands were in the same "push" position. He could've gotten captured by the house.

As a father of four, fiction or not, that cuts right through your soul. Some things need to be said before you pass.

I just finished watching the show this week. Who the hell kept this masterpiece from me for 2 years? Why didn’t I ever hear anything about this show until last week?

Acting in this entire series was just amazing.

It's creeps me out to see Olivia looking at Steve like that... Almost as telling him "I will return", but not in a good way.

Hugh's character makes me cry so fucking much! He deserved to be able to raise his children!!!

The hardest scenes to watch in this show wasn't the scary ones. It was the complete dysfunction of the family that was hardest to watch

This show was soo heavy. The actress playing Nelly was incredible.

All the ghosts revealing themselves in the end gave me chills.

Notice that he could not say 'Life', he said: "never been prouder than anything...anything in my ....". Is that a word a dead person can not utter??

I always come back here when I need a good cry

It's midnight 1AM and i have just finished the 10th episode of this incredible series & this was my frist series i have watched on netflix. And i would like to say it's absolutely remarkable and mind-blowing content has been made by the makers. Prior i was reluctant to watch this but now after completing this i can say i took a right decision to watch this series. The makers and each and every actor has has did really absolutely splendiferous job. Each and every character was awesome. Hugh was really great he tried to protect his children till his last breath. 01/11/2023 Wednesday 01:13AM

I cried this whole series. Like especially at nells funeral “none of you could see me” I balled

This scene made me cry more than any other in the show. Hugh was such a good and misunderstood character.

Hugh crain the hero of hill house he saved his family twice and did whatever it takes in the end he got nothing this is what most fathers do and no one appreciate them ❤❤💔

“Somethings can’t be told, you live them or you don’t but can’t be told” :(

Anyone else watching Steve leave the house calmly, with the ghosts gathering behind him, get the sense that he and the ghosts have made peace with each other, and that they're saluting him goodbye? Does he even see the ghosts?

This was an unsatisfying ending for Nell. She has found peace (in a way), is no longer the “bent-neck lady,” saved all of her siblings, and is reunited with both of her parents. This seems all well and good, but she is still trapped forever in that dreary house with only her parents, Clara Dudley and her children, and the evil ghosts to keep her company. She will never see her husband again. She will never see any of her siblings again unless all of them happen to manage to get to the house right before they die, which seems unlikely. Maybe the good ghosts like Nell are able to create their own heaven in their minds within the house?

I wish this series got more attention and memes :/ I mean, it’s definitely popular, but not so much buzz like Bird Box

1:46 is creepy how she’s just starting at him

"Sacrifice" what a significant word it is . the show was amazing charecters was amazing. There's nothing else to say. I 'll miss this show so much .

the music is incredible in this scene - subtle, ominous, poignant, mournful

the way hugh accepted his own fate says a lot

I cried so hard at this whole ending, but it was all so beautifully done and smart and genuinely devastating. I just loved all of them so much that it was so hard to say goodbye at the end.

The "Dad" at 1:21 always kills me

This show had me sobbing 😭 as a mother this part is deep.... My last words would be the same.. so 😢

"Never been prouder of anything. Anything, ever." That got me in the feels. My dad never says I love you. He says « You know I’m proud of you, right? »

We're always close with my pops, we had our ups and downs but we're always there for eachother 😔😌

I see so much of my family in this season. Hugh reminded me of my dad, someone who may not always make the "right" choice, but who lives his life making the best decisions he can for his family. And who always loves us no matter what. When I tell you I bawled during this episode... Man. 😭😭

The goodbyes said couldn’t have been written any better. Hugh did an incredibly, saddening, but heartwarming performance delivering this message

I loved this series and i loved bly manor, midnight mass and the midnight club, but i am yet to see another work from Flanagan that makes me feel the things I felt watching this show, the most close I've ever been with that has been midnight mass

im writing this right now in the middle of a river of tears. This scene touches deeply my soul. I will never forget the lessons I learned watching this WONDERFUL tv show. Thank you. The rest is confetti. Thank you thank you

I watched this show awhile ago but rewatched it because of how beautiful it was. This scene made me cry 😢

saw this quote earlier “ there are two types of ppl.. those who cried during this and those who lied about not crying”.. lol. what a great series!

Hugh's the most misunderstood yet good person. All along he was just trying to protect his kids from the bitter truth despite being shut out, disliked and lashed out at.

I have to admit that Steven was like me always clinging to his dad to earn his attention and love. Steve's only mistake was just be open with Nell and talk to her and help.

2 years later I am still here

Happy that season 2 is it’s own self contained story and doesn’t expand on hill house because honestly it doesn’t need it

1:19 behind Steven there's a ghost.

I never cry ever when watching anything But this.... Just wow

The composure.. the script.. amazing

Me and my mom just got done watching this last night, and we bawled...not a dry eye at all. Love is a beautiful thing.